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Apocalypse Reigns

Chapter 2

Lucius Malfoy was away on Ministry business on the first of September so when his sons boarded the Hogwarts Express at Kings Cross station for the very first time, they were kissed goodbye only by their mother. Not that they minded, Lucius never payed much attention to them anyway, sure he bought them stuff and spoiled them but that was just payback for never being there for them.

As Harry and Draco waved goodbye to their mother and the train pulled away from the platform, another boy walked into their compartment. He had the brightest ginger hair you'd ever seen and his face was almost as red.

"Um, hey, everywhere else is full, do you mind if I sit here?" the boy nervously asked.

"Hmm" Harry mockingly drawled.

"Let's see." Draco said, joining in.

"Bright red hair"

"Freckles"

"And hand me down robes"

"You must be a Weasley."

"So...?" the boy nervously asked.

"Not"

"A"

"Chance"

"In"

"Hell" This was followed by much rude sniggering as the Weasley boy backed out of the compartment as fast as he could.

A short while later a dark haired boy walked by and Draco called to him enthusiastically.

"Hey! Theo! Wanna join us?"

"Sorry. I was just going to find the food trolley. Maybe later, yeah?"

"Oh. Sure. Bye, Theo."

To tell you the truth, Draco and Harry, although they looked as confident as always, were nervous. They were nervous that they wouldn't make friends. That they suddenly wouldn't be the princes they always had been. They worried that they had just snubbed the boy that could have been their only other friend. Not that worried though, they still had each other, they always had that.

Just then a bushy haired girl holding a toad burst into the carriage and thrust the toad into Draco's hand saying "I'm Hermione, there's this really annoying guy in my compartment. This is his toad. If anyone asks, you never saw me or the toad."

Harry laughed maliciously and they agreed to hide the toad, knowing they were going to fit in here.

"Well, once you've hidden Trevor, you should probably change into your robes. We'll be there soon I think." Hermione advised in a matter of fact tone.

They did.

It turned out Hermione had been right. It was only ten minutes until the train drew to a halt and the booming shout of "FIRST YEARS OVER HERE!" drew them over to the half giant Hagrid and the boats ready to cross the lake.

It took ages of cold and discomfort to make it to Hogwarts so by the time they truly arrived at the doors of Hogwarts, both Draco and harry were utterly disgruntled. However, this feeling rapidly evaporated when the wide doors finally opened and they were basked in the glory of Hogwarts. Professor McGonagall met them and ushered them to a room just off the great hall to wait until they were ready for them. Draco and harry smirked when they saw the other students looking scared if not downright terrified of what the task would be to sort them. They, of course, knew exactly what they'd have to do and considering their father was on the board of governors, this was only to be expected.

"We are ready for you now."

As they entered the noisy great hall, it fell silent and every head swivelled their way. They stood in a line of alphabetical line by surname so, mercifully, Draco stood next to harry.

"Abbot, Hannah"

"Hufflepuff!"

This went on for a while and their attention drifted off but was brought back again when McGonagall said "Granger, Hermione."

Hermione walked stiffly up to the hat and put it rather unceremoniously on her head. She jumped when it started to whisper to her "hmm, where to put you. Where to put you. You're smart, I see, brave too and cunning."

Memories flooded Hermione's mind. Her days of school time misery at the hands of bullies. The day the bullies were no longer able to hurt her.

At school she had been picked on by a gang of five merciless boys and rumours were spread by the girls as if that wasn't enough. they said Hermione was a snob, they said she didn't like anyone who tried to befriend her, they said she was a slut, a whore, that she couldn't get a boyfriend so she just let boys do whatever they wanted with her. Then, one day, she'd climbed up a tree to avoid the boys and one of them, Jake, tried to follow. Hermione was scared out of her wits. She found herself wishing a branch would break as he stepped on it and, at the moment that thought came into her head, it did. Jake ended up in hospital with an arm fractured in 14 places and Hermione knew she had made that happen. She was elated. She started testing how much she could do and finally came up with a plan. The other members of jakes gang were Finn, Josef, Alex and Neil so when Josef and Neil were flirting with Alissa (the most popular girl in school and the best gossip spreader) at the top of the stairs, Hermione seized her chance. All she did was plant a seed of anger in Neil and Josef's minds but it was enough. There was a push and then Alissa was lying splayed out at the bottom, no longer breathing. Dead. The boys were locked up. Hermione was almost free. Two weeks later Finn and Alex transferred to a neighbouring school. Hermione wasn't sorry for any of it.

"SLYTHERIN!" a great roar echoed from the slytherin table as Hermione rushed over to greet them.

"Malfoy, Draco"

"SLYTHERIN!"

"Malfoy-Potter, Harry"

"SLYTHERIN!"

The whole world was a blur to Hermione after that.